Detecting Pain

Recent studies have shown that horses are far more stoic than we had imagined. On the scale of pain tolerance, they are much higher than people. For example, the thrashing colicky horse often needs surgery, and after surgery, pain is very difficult to detect. For years veterinarians have walked by hospitalized horses after colic surgery and figured they were doing fine because they were standing

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